Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Bewakoofiyan, W, Battle of the Damned, 3 Days to Kill and Neighbours) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Bewakoofiyan

Bewakoofiyaan is a 2014 Indian romantic comedy film directed by Nupur Asthana, written by Habib Faisal and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. The film features Ayushmann Khurrana and Sonam Kapoor in lead roles.

The film has Ayushmann Khurrana as Mohit Chadhdha, Sonam Kapoor as Mayera Sehgal and Rishi Kapoor as V. K. Sehgal.

Bewakoofiyaan can be described as a "slice of life" movie, which is set during the time of recession. Mohit (Ayushmann Khurrana) and Mayera (Sonam Kapoor) are passionately in love and believes that their love can help them survive any situation; however, V. K. Sehgal (Rishi Kapoor), Mayera's father, strongly believes against this.

Mohit (Ayushmann Khurrana) is a marketing whiz kid vying for a step up the career ladder. Mayera (Sonam Kapoor) is a financial brain with a penchant for shoes.

They are a young middle class corporate couple who are ambitious and desires to spend a good life. They both work hard to achieve their goals and enjoy their life too.

They are passionately in love with each other and believe that they can live on love and fresh air. However, the main obstacle in their love story is an obstinate old man, Mayera's father V. K. Sehgal, who believes that only a rich man can bring Mayera happiness and that a mid-level executive like Mohit simply isn't good enough for his daughter.

Exactly how fragile are relationships in these times where consumer lifestyles dictate their very nature and intensity? Who has the last laugh when recession strikes and the lack of money tests love, credit-card-junkies private-sector Mohit-Mayera or safe-playing sarkari, V.K. Sehgal?      

The soundtrack for the film is composed by Raghu Dixit, while the lyrics are penned by Anvita Dutt, except at some places. The film has songs like Gulcharrey sung by Aditi Singh Sharma and Benny Dayal, Khamakhaan by Ayushmann Khurrana and Neeti Mohan, Bewakoofiyaan by Raghu Dixit, Rumaani Sa by Mohit Chauhan and Shreya Ghoshal, Aye Jigida by Vishal Dadlani and O Heeriye by Ayushmann Khurrana.      

W

W is a 2014 musical thriller Hindi film directed by Tarun Madan Chopra. The movie stars Meer Ali, Abhey Jit Attri and Sonal Giani.

Sandy (Leeza Mangaldas), Ruhi (Leslie Tripathy) and Manu (Sonal Giani) are three best friends that run W, an event management company that focuses on music events. While traveling to The Freedom Concert, an event that was supposed to be their big break, they come across a group of misogynistic men who don't like how modern and self-sufficient the three women are and end up raping them. Because the three men are of good social standing, the police are particularly unhelpful and the women are traumatized by how they are treated afterwards. This prompts the three women to form the Vengeance Squad in order to take their own revenge against their rapists.

The film has Leeza Mangaldas, Leslie Tripathy, Sonal Giani, Raaj Singh Arora, Danish Pandor, Abhey Jit Attri, Meer Ali and Gagan Guru.

The film's music and background score is written and composed by Daboo Sardar Malik. The musical duo Bothers in Arm (Amal Mallik and Armaan Malik) contribute to the soundtrack, and so also Sunidhi Chauhan, Neha Bhasin, and Apeksha Dandekar.

Battle of the Damned

Battle of the Damned is a 2013 American action, sci-fi film directed by Christopher Hatton, and starring Dolph Lundgren. Following a deadly viral outbreak, private soldier Max Gatling (Lundgren) leads a handful of survivors and a team of robots in a fight against an army of the dead.

This time Lundgren is up against virus-infected human zombies, 'Eaters' as we call them. Max is sent into an infected, abandoned city to find the daughter of a rich industrialist. He gets more than he bargained for.

To be exact, the film narrates the following story: In various south-east Asian countries different corporations are able to work on projects that their home countries would frown upon. At some point in the near future one such project is accidentally released during its production; a lethal pathogen that basically turns people into zombies. This region of the Earth is cut off from the rest of the world.

Aside from the occasional military unit dropping in for a mission from time to time there is no contact with any possible survivors. Max Gatling, played by Dolph Lundgren, is one soldier dropped into “Hell” with his unit on a random mission. After his team leaves, Max must fight his way through the infected hordes and save the kid of the head of the corporation responsible for the virus. In other words, he’s the only man for the job and he’s gotta save the President’s daughter and there are robots too.

3 Days to Kill

3 Days to Kill is a 2014 American/French action thriller film directed by McG and written by Luc Besson & Adi Hasak. The film stars Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Richard Sammel and Eriq Ebouaney.

Kevin Costner stars as Ethan Renner, a gruff-voiced, scarf-wearing, Paris-based CIA agent who is diagnosed with brain cancer, leaving him a few months to reconnect with Christine (Connie Nielsen), his ex-wife, and Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld), their teenage daughter. Also working for the CIA is Vivi (Amber Heard), a femme fatale who promises Ethan access to an experimental miracle drug in exchange for one last job. Naturally, he has to keep the deal a secret from his family; to complicate matters, the drug causes him to hallucinate, then collapse, whenever his heart rate rises.

One action sequence is seen through the eyes of a delighted small boy, peeping out a car window while his mother looks the other way. Another similarly-aged boy belongs to a family of African immigrants squatting in Ethan's apartment – a subplot that gives rise to some truly strange moments, particularly when the clan gathers round to watch an older daughter give birth.

Neighbours

Neighbors is an American comedy film, directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Andrew Cohen and Brendan O’Brien. The film stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.  

A couple with a newborn baby moves into a new neighborhood and face unexpected difficulties following the establishment of a fraternity house in the adjacent residence. An intensive conflict between the two parties ensues.

Texas - It's OK to grow up. Even Seth Rogen says so. As a married former party guy transitioning into suburban parenthood, Rogen wages war with the frat house next door.

The film is packed with crowd-pleasing Rogen-style jokes and the war spirals into depravity between new parents Mac and Kelly Radner and the Delta Psi Beta frat next door, led by its slightly damaged president, Teddy, portrayed by Zac Efron. But as Mac and Kelly, played by Rogen and Rose Byrne, find themselves trying to shut down raging parties they would have loved to attend when they were 10 years younger, the film's biggest battle turns out to be internal. It is the one fought by anyone afraid to grow up, or who cannot figure out how to make a comfortable transition to "get-off-my-lawn" adulthood out of an irresponsible youth they are sorry to see disappear.